Button loop



Patented Nov. 17, 1931 A'rsrr` erica JOHN H. Demmin, or wns'r HAVEN, CONNnC'rrCUfr, Assis-Non To 'rnn wine NOVELTY MANUFACTUMNG COMPANY, or wEsrHAvrN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION or CONNECTICUT BUTTON LOOP Ap'pncatiqn med August 19, 1931. serial 110,558,032, f

This invention relates to button loops and more especially to thattype of button loops made from a piece of wire the extremities of which are connected by a clip coupling permitting therein limited relative movements of the extremities upon the lateral expansion and contraction of the button loop. y

The art contains numerous forms of connecting members that permit thel functioning therein of the button loop extremities, but there is still a demand for an improved connecting member that, from the view-point of manufacture and appearance, will be inexpensive and neat. It is Old in the art to provide outwardly bent and relatively abutting tips of aligned extremities of 'a button loop, and the art also .discloses connecting members adapted to be mounted upon such formed extremities by means, for instance, of sleeves connected by flat arcuate portions covering the ends of the wire and forming a depressed part for the reception of the shank of a button, the walls of the flat arcuate portions being parallel one to the other by reason of the fact that the connecting member is folded in the middle so that portions equal one to the other in size and form depend in saddle-like fashion from either face of the button loop. The improved connecting member, about to be explained, however isa unique formation of a single piece of sheet metal vproviding sleeves having connecting portions covering Outwardlybent andrelatively abutting tips of aligned extremities of the button loop upon which the sleeves are loosely'mounted and providing a seat for the shank of a button, the formation including a single depending display portion with curved outline and o-set into the middle of the plane of the button loop below the abutting tips. Therefore the objects of the invention are to provide a simple and inexpensive button loop of the expansible type to provide for a button loop having Outwardly bent and relativelyV abutting tips of aligned extremities, aeonnectingmember enclosing said extremities and tips and providing a single depending display portion below said tips; and to'provide for such a button loop a connecting member having aseat for the shank of a button, and a single depending portion .of which a curved marginal part extends slightly below the periphery of a seated button. lVith these and Vother objectsy inview as may become apparent from the within disclosures, the invention consists not only vofthe particular form herein pointedout and illus-v` trated in the drawings, but readily admits of certain modiication within the scope of what hereinafter may be claimed.

To best understand the character ofthev invention, reference is madeto one illustrative device embodying the invention and illustrated by 'the accompanying drawings in which the Figure 1 is an upright face elevation of 'a button loop `and connecting member,

illustrating 'in dotted line the extremities inv substantially abutting normal positions within the member; the Figure 2 is an edge view of the device; the Figure 3 is an upright face elevation ofthe laterally expanded device; the Figure et is an elevation of the connecting member intemplate form; and the Figure 5 is a perspective view of ing member. y p Y v l Referring more particularly toy the drawings, thebuttonl loop Ais formed in a manner well-known to the art to provide the suspension loop 1 having the horizontal bar 2 around whichv a looped strap (not illustrated) may be placed that the buttonloop may be the formed connectsuspended therefromfthe spring arms 3 and e b v which the extremities 8 and 9 are connecty ed. The improved clip coupling yor connect-p ing member -20 is stamped out of' sheet metal in substantially the template form, illustra-ted by the Figure 4, having the sleeves 2 1 relatively spaced bythe connecting portions 22 and 23, the member v2O beingprovided with the perforation 24, substantially separating:

the 'connecting portions 22 and 23'and the detion-'23.

pending portion 25 out of which the connecting portion 22 is cut, as at 26, the portion 25 having the curved edge 27. The member 20 is folded over the aligned extremities 8 and 9 so thatthe perforation 24 provides a seat for the shank S of button within the buttonretaining loop 6, each sleeve 21 is tlien formed loosely around an aligned extremity 8 or 9, leaving the connecting portions 22 and 23 in substantially parallel planes upon opposite sides of the extremities 8 and 9, the engagement of the connecting portions 22 and 23 with the tips l() and 11 maintaining the member 2O against rotation upon the aligned extremities 8 and 9, and substantially concealing the tips 10 and 11 from view. In the formation of the sleeves 21, the depending portion 25 is oliiset to the middle of the plane ot the button loop, as best illustrated by the Figures 2 and 5, the cut 26 being` sufficient to permit the connecting portion 22 to remain undisturbed in its parallel relation to the connecting por- In use, the shank S may be urged from the position within the button loop, illustrated in full line by the Figure 1, to the position illustrated by the Figure 3, thus laterally expanding the .button loop to permit the shank S to pass into 'and through the throat portion 7 to assume the seated position within the button-retaining loop 6 as illustrated in dot-ted line by the Figure 1 wherein a marginal part of the Ydepending portion 25 is shown to extend below the dotted periphery 12 of a seated button. The button loop with the improved eonnecting member provides a reversible device in that the elevation opposite to that illustrated by the Figure 1 is substantially identical therewith. v

I claim: Y

1. A button loop having relatively aligned extremities provided with enlargements, and a clip coupling formed from a single piece oi sheet-metal and mounted upon the aligned extremities, the clip .coupling having spaced parallel cut-edged portions substantially enclosing` the enlargements, and a depending display portion off-set below the enlargements, and free from both spaced parallel portions, to the middle ot the plane of the button loop.

2. A button loop having relatively aligned extremities provided with enlargements, and a clip coupling having spaced sleeves loosely r surrounding outerl portions ofthe extremities, the sleeves being connected by spaced parallel portions substantially enclosing the enlargements, and a depending display portionl integral with the sleeves,but cut away Y from one of the spaced parallel-portions, and

off-set below the enlargements to the middle of the plane of the button loop.

3. A button loop having relatively aligned extremities with the tip of each extremity bent outwardly and substantially abutting sleeves but cut away fronroneof the spaced parallel-portions and odset, below the tips oi the aligned extremities, to the-middle ot' the plane of the button loop.

Ll. A clip coupling adapted to connect, for a limited movement therein, enlargements of aligned extremities of a wire't'orlnation, the clip coupling comprising a sheet-metal saddle-like formation adapted to be placed over aligned extremities and providing spaced mea-.ns Jfor securing the clip coupling upon the aligned extremities, spaced parallel portions adapted to substantially enclose the enlargements, and a rigid depending display portion integral with the securing means, but

free from both spaced parallel portions, t-he depending portion being off-set below the spaced parallel portions into a plane midway of the spaced parallel portions.

' l JOHN H; DQMKEE.

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